There were 4,189 different contributors overall. Another point of interest is that systemd, a replacement for init that is the first process to run when Linux starts, is now approaching 1.3 million lines of code thanks to nearly 43,000 commits in 2019.

Who contributes to Linux?

Per 2016 report, the top contributing companies to the Linux kernel were:

• Intel (12.9 percent)
• Red Hat (8 percent)
• Linaro (4 percent)
• Samsung (3.9 percent)
• SUSE (3.2 percent)
• IBM (2.7 percent)

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Is Linux written in C or C++?

Linux. Linux is also written mostly in C, with some parts in assembly. About 97 percent of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers run the Linux kernel.